[Sailor Steve]

I voted 3) Normal Difficulty. Actually 4 kind of describes my attitude, but I've never been able to master manual targeting or wean myself from the external views, especially when I'm in port.

I almost never wander from my assigned grid (in SH3 - SH4 lets you request a new zone and sometimes lets you run free), even if it means getting zero tonnage for the patrol.

While I use the Weapons Officer / Auto Targeting I always take several periscope observations, which doesn't change my chances of hitting but does increase the chance of my being spotted.

I never man the deck or flak guns myself. I keep Auto Reload turned off, and never reload the torpedoes while I'm escaping (a steep dive angle could make one of those one-ton suckers break lose and go right through the hull), or while surfaced if the wind speed is more than 6. I never reload externals except at a dead stop in a dead calm sea.

I always return all the way to port and dock the boat myself.

I use SH3 Commander, and set if for 'Realistic Career Length'. I don't expect to ever go all the way through the war - I'll get promoted to a desk job long before that happens (assuming I survive that long).

And of course Dead Is Dead.